Posts Tagged ‘Gothic’

CALAMANDER OCCASIONAL TABLE, PAINTED CABINET ON STAND, PAINTED WALNUT HARLEQUIN DAVENPORT, CORNER DISPLAY CABINET, MAHOGANY AND MARQUETRY DESK

Sunday, December 27th, 2009

CALAMANDER OCCASIONAL TABLE, PAINTED CABINET ON STAND, PAINTED WALNUT HARLEQUIN DAVENPORT, CORNER DISPLAY CABINET, MAHOGANY AND MARQUETRY DESK
A BURR WALNUT LOO TABLE, the OVal top
inlaid with stringing on a baluster leaf-carved pillar and four leaf-carved cabriole legs, with a retailer’s label T. H. Filmer & Son, 29\ by 53in; 75 by 136cm, c. 1870.
A MAHOGANY [...]

Antique Gothic Revival Sideboards.

Monday, October 12th, 2009

19th Century Gothic Revival Sideboard
The Gothic Revival sideboard had long been a popular decorative and archi-
tectural style in Europe. Horace Walpole’s Strawberry Hill at Twickenham, England (1749-77), was a Gothic folly of monumental scale, and even Robert Adam had worked in the Gothic style.
Unlike the purified geometricity of classical styles from Greece and Rome, European [...]

Antique 18th Century American Sideboards.

Monday, October 12th, 2009

1700`s American Rococo Sideboards
In America, the Rococo sideboard emerged as a distinctly restrained version of the European style : interiors were hardly as fanciful as their European counterparts, and drawing room walls were ornamented with architectural pediments and rectangular panels rather than gilt cartouches, in a persistence of the Palladian style. Japanning was popular, especially [...]

English Rococo Sideboards

Monday, October 12th, 2009

XVIII Century English Sideboards Rococo Style
In mid-century and in the late 18th century, the French Rococo sideboards caught on in England, inspired largely by the engravings of H. F. Gravelot and by improved peace-time relations with France. In England the
cave-like rocaille, and the cult of the picturesque that accompanied it, became popular along with ornaments [...]